We examine the chilling story of a CO2 scrubber failure that led to the loss of half a crew in a confined environment.

These “diffuse emissions” account for roughly half of the CO2 that goes up into the sky every day, contributing to global warming. The scrubber takes in air and binds the CO2 to sodium hydroxide.

It’s a bit more complex than that, involving several more “chemical intermediaries,” but the point is it can remove a ton of carbon dioxide using less than 100 kWh of electricity.

A group of US scientists has made a breakthrough in developing "carbon scrubbers" to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere. Led by Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner and backed by a ...

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Komar Kawatra couldn't be prouder of the students on his research team at Michigan Technological University -- because they've developed a CO2 scrubber in-house.

Other scrubbers can remove up to 90% of the CO2 from a smokestack, but the liquid used must be processed to strip away the carbon dioxide, which then needs to be compressed and stored.

The new scrubber material would meet the goal of the U.S. Department of Energy, which funded the research, of developing carbon capture technologies with at least a 90 percent CO2 capture efficiency.